"My parents were the first in our family……" — Sarah Waters

"My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service."

— Sarah Waters

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37 Quotes by Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might…
For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of…
I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling…
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the…
We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself…
She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of…
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness,…
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt…
Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
It's a curious, wanting thing.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought… — Frank Abagnale
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest… — Gerard Arpey
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius

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